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Friday, June 14, 2013

It's a Summer of Color Paint Party Friday!!

Well, doesn't that just sound like a total blast?? I lovePaint Party Fridays--they have the friendliest, most encouraging group of artists participating every week, so much fun! And Summer of Color is now in full swing as well, so I thought I'd combine the two (and I've got a little ICAD and Diva challenge going on here as well--just throwin' it all into the mix! Why not, right?)

First up, a couple of my index cards for ICAD--I played with a glue resist tutorial someone shared online (please don't ask who or where...it would take me forever to track them down again! I have entirely too much happening right here!) Gessoed a card, whipped on a quick coating of some pretty citron-ish-y green acrylic (Summer of Color, um, colors for the week are Citron and Turquoise---fyi...) Let that dry (this was all happening on the super humid rainy day earlier this week when NOTHING wanted to dry, so that's how I ended up playing with so many different things all at once) then squibbled on (yes, squibbled--it's a highly technical artistic term used, well, primarily by, um, me) some glue--good old Elmer's,and waited for THAT to dry...what a day...Then, I washed it with some turquoise-y watercolor and for the life of me, I can't help myself but want to sprinkle salt on all my watercolors because it does the coolest effects--that and rubbing alcohol...seriously, try it! Amazing! But I think in this instance I could've, should've left well enough alone. Eh...leave me to my own devices and things are bound to get a little out of hand...So here's how it finally turned out:

I went back over some of the spots with a little watercolor pencil just to deepen the shady bits. Hey, for an experiment, it's still pretty cool. Oh, and the card on the bottom is another Summer of Color, Citron/Turquoise ICAD featuring a little Pokeleaf in watercolor pencil.

Then, I got a little grid seed play happy again, and zipped this zentangley card up today, in, what else? Citron/Turquoise! Lovin' this Summer of Color!

So, thanks as always for stopping by and I hope you'll come join us in all this Paint Party Summer of Color ICAD Diva fun!! Have a great weekend!!

ICAD is perfect for experiments and I think it came out fabulously! Love your designs as well. They are fabulous and perfect use of the Summer of Color challenges. Who has time to be bored with so much out there to do at the moment!!?

Loving your SOC work! Thank you so much for sharing this with us - your cards are so beautiful (love the salt and alcohol tricks ;) and that zentangle is gorgeous - it looks like fabric! Can't wait to see what you do next :) xoxo